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Against a backdrop of geopolitical uncertainty and ongoing speculation about the direction of monetary policy from the world’s major central banks, yields fell across the majority of benchmark 10-year government securities in August.

Speaking at the ECB Forum in Sintra on June 27, president Mario Draghi’s remark that “the threat of deflation is gone” was perceived to herald the withdrawal of monetary stimulus by the central bank. According to Tradeweb data, yields on most major government bonds rose over the course of June, breaking the trend from previous months.

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February saw January’s widespread sell-off in European government bonds reverse, with the exception of Spanish debt. According to Tradeweb data, the mid-yield on Spain’s 10-year benchmark bond ended the month nearly 3 basis points higher at 1.63%, having dropped as low as 1.56% on February 27.

European government bonds suffered a sell-off in January against a backdrop of mixed economic data and geopolitical uncertainty. At the end of January 2017, 38.5% of European government bonds were in negative territory, down from 45.3% at the end of December 2016.

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